Uaupés

or Wau·pés

[ wou-pes ]

noun

1. a river in S central Colombia, where it rises and is called the Vaupes, flowing in NW Brazil E and SE to the Rio Negro River. 500 miles (805 km) long.

Example Sentences

The Uaupes in the Amazons incinerate a corpse a month after death, pound up the ashes, and mix them with their fermented drink.

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Tynjur, the, 74 Tyrol, the, brachycephaly in, 512 Uaupés, the, 348 Ude language, 541 Ugrian Finns, the, 317 sqq.,

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The river Uaupés is a tributary of the Upper Rio Negro, and a voyage up this stream brought us into singular regions.

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From the moment the music was first heard, not a female, old or young, was to be seen; for it is one of the strangest superstitions of the Uaupés Indians, that they consider it so dangerous for a woman 295 ever to see one of these instruments, that, having done so, she is punished with death, generally by poison.

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I do not remember a single circumstance in my travels so striking and so new, or that so well fulfilled all previous expectations, as my first view of the real uncivilised inhabitants of the Uaupés.

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